Community Interest Company
Our Mission
Our goal is to shine a light on carers (unpaid). We want to make the challenges and joys carers cope with every day visible.
Define Carer (Unpaid)
A carer is someone who provides support to family or friends who cannot manage without this help. This can be caring for a relative, partner or friend who is ill, frail, disabled or has mental health or substance misuse problems. All while not receiving living wage.
Carers Allowance is currently £76.75 for 35+ hours a week, which works out at roughly £2.19 per hour. National Living Wage for 21-year-olds is currently £11.44 per hour.
Our Action
Spending Time
We would like to connect with carers. We want our projects to reveal their labour that is often hidden: to make people who feel underrepresented visible in the public domain.
Take Part
We are always looking for carers to take part.
Why?
10.6
million people in the UK are carers (estimated)
2.6%
of the South West of England population are carers. That's around 148,000 carers.
£81.90
per week Carers Allowance is paid to the main carer for a minimum of 35 hours, the lowest benefit of its kind.
1/4
of carers’ report their mental health as bad or very bad
48.6%
of carers reported at least one adverse health effect from providing unpaid care